Sorry, Bobby Shmurda; you won’t be allowed to change your plea deal in your criminal case.
The “Shmoney Dance” rapper was denied a request to withdraw a plea deal he made, with a judge sentencing him to the seven years he’d agreed to, the New York Post reports.
Shmurda, 22 (real name: Ackquille Jean Pollard), attempted to take back his plea deal on Tuesday, contending that his lawyer pushed it on him.
“I was forced by my attorney to take the plea,” Shmurda told Manhattan judge Abraham Clott.
Shmurda also had words for his attorney Alex Spiro, telling him, “I want to drop my plea. I want to drop my plea and fire you.”
The rapper agreed to the plea deal in September, receiving a seven-year sentence in a gang conspiracy case against him, according to the New York Daily News. He accepted the deal just days before he was scheduled to stand trial.
The rapper was arrested in December 2014 and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, weapons possession and reckless endangerment. According to prosecutors, Shmurda was the “driving force” behind the GS9 gang, the Washington Post reported. He was accused of firing shots at a crowd in Brooklyn, and of being present during a confrontation with a rival gang outside a courthouse, during which shots were fired.
Per The New York Daily News, Shmurda pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess weapons and possession of a weapon in the deal.
Shmurda, who has been incarcerated since his arrest, had faced a possible 25 years in prison if convicted at trial.